1 Timothy 4:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Forbidding

1 Corinthians 7:28

Hebrews 13:4

To abstain

With

Believe

1 Timothy 2:4

John 8:31

2 Thessalonians 2:13

General references

Matthew 19:10

Colossians 2:21

Bible References

Forbidding

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

To abstain

Let not him who eateth, despise him that eateth not; and let not him who eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.

But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.

If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as,

Be not carried aside with various and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, in which those who walked were not profited.

With

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving;

And bidding the multitudes to lie down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and, looking up to heaven, he blessed; and having broken the loaves he gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

And it came to pass, as he was at table with them, that he took the bread, and blessed it, and broke and gave it to them.

(but there came other boats from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread, when the Lord had given thanks;)

And having thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and having broken it, he began to eat.

and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. And he that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth thanks to God; and he that doth not eat, to the Lord he doth not eat, and giveth thanks to God.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I to be evil spoken of in a matter for which I give thanks?

and whatever ye do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, the Father, through him.

Believe

whose will is that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed in him, If ye continue in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth;

General references

The disciples say to him, If such be the case of a man with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Handle not, Taste not, Touch not,